In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Once you label me you negate me.

Dare to risk public criticism.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.